(April 11, 2013 at 10:12 pm)Undeceived Wrote: Sorry for my vagueness. By 'presupposed' I mean science that uses certain outside beliefs as its premises. For example, Evolution is not a conclusion based on a mass of undeniable evidence. Evolutionists presuppose Evolution and work the evidence to match it. If you're thinking, "That's what Christians do!" you're right. My point is that much of science is like a religion. When a Naturalist says "prove to me the supernatural exists" they are presupposing Empiricism, and that everyone outside of their camp bears the burden of proof. And so on.
I'm going to have to disagree with you on that one. Evolution was not the first theory of its kind, and was widely contested when it was first proposed. People did not bend the evidence to their presuppositions, do you know how Darwin first came up with the idea of evolution?
History of evolutionary thought
By the way, science does work, in that this forum can exist because of science. So, to at least that extent, science has demonstrated its effectiveness. How many significant discoveries came about via revelation?
John Adams Wrote:The Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.